User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Important therapy information
- 3 Introduction to stimulation
- 4 Using your patient programmer
- How the patient programmer works
- Synchronizing and displaying the Therapy screen
- Guidelines for adjusting your stimulation
- Turning your neurostimulator ON or OFF
- Adjusting stimulation settings
- Patient programmer batteries
- Summary of keys
- Preferences: Changing the audio, contrast, and number format
- Using the carrying case and labeling the patient programmer
- Optional detachable antenna
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Maintenance
- 7 Appendix A: Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
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How stimulation
works
Nerve signals from all over
your body travel to your spinal
cord and then to your brain.
Your brain translates the
signals into sensations such
as pain.
Stimulation delivers electrical
pulses to the area where your
pain signals will be blocked as
they move to the brain (Figure 3.1).
Figure 3.1 Stimulation blocks some of the pain
signals as they move to the brain.
Neurostimulator
pulses sent to
brain
Signal
from foot
Brain
translates
signal as pain
Brain senses
pain and tingling